Looks like the Engineer is now being “thrown under the train” as it were (i.e. the finger of blame is being pointed at him by his CEO), but I suspect there is much more to this story that will unfold over the next few weeks. The fact that they cannot actually count the number of dead due to the intensity of the fire suggests that maybe the rules for transporting Oil and such over rail might need to be reviewed. Someone quoted me that the amount of oil being transported by rail is up 2700% over the past 10 years, due to pipe line saturation? Wow.

Looks like someone is trying to drown Toronto with even a larger amount of water than a few weeks back causing the city to be crippled by more flooding. In Ottawa heavy rain usually means the sewer system overloads and starts dumping directly into the Ottawa River (many special surprises for those down river from Ottawa). Rumor has it that a chap called Noah might be running as next Mayor of Toronto, but that is unconfirmed.

Evidently the Lu Lu Lemon folks think that their “see through” yoga pants were actually folks that were wearing clothing that was too small for them. Are they saying that folks wear clothing smaller sizes than they should, to help their ego? I have been a size 32 my entire life (of course my trousers are now down below my knees ( and that is your hideous mental image for the weekend).

My Weekly Recap

The dog days of summer are here, but fear not I will be bringing you quality articles all summer long (yes, I don’t believe that any more than you do):

Did you notice that Google Reader is now dead? I am now using Feedly to read RSS feeds, is anyone found anything better or different?

A very interesting tool from MIT that will graph your sphere of influence from your Gmail Account. I tried it, but if you are worried about your on line privacy, remember you are giving it access to your GMAIL account too.

Preet is back in the Globe to help us have cheaper road trips, although he doesn’t mention the need for sedation if you bring your kids.

Other Bookkeeping

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Videos that Go Boom

Unfortunately I didn’t find this video for Exploding Christmas last week, so here a little late is a cool thing that went KAPOW!